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Metabolic Syndrome in Hypertension – Treatment Challenges and Goals...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are two disease conditions that are intimately intertwined, both clinically and pathophysiologically. Currently, over 2.3 million people in North...
Cappella Medical Devices : Sideguard® Design
The elastic properties of nitinol allow such adaptability to various morphologies. The combination of self-expanding nitinol with a unique, conforming stent design provide for constant outward radial force on the lumen.
The Sideguard® stent therefore dynamically apposes the full sidebranch lumen including the ostium. This dynamic apposition results in continuous stent to vessel wall contact as well as an increase in vessel diameter over time. For more information please click here.
